That hip hop thread...

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K-os is hands down one of the most underrated rappers ever. What i like about him was how he criticizes some stuff mainstream hip hop glorifies.

Anyways here's one of my favorite songs from him

 
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I've always been listening to metal and rap and I keep thinking how both those genres waned away about the same time - 1997-2000. If you're old enough, you might even remember metal/rap collaborations on movie soundtracks like Judgment Night. I was just reading comments under this video (below this post) and someone called it "the most slept on album from the golden era". I mostly agree. Even mainstream products like Busta Rhymes had a bunch of really damn good songs in 1996. Nowadays the divide between mainstream and underground is a lot more noticeable.

Same with metal - you could see videos for fantastic bands like Pantera fairly often. Now there's absolutely NO metal in the mainstream.


I dig this a lot, too. Super dark album, one of my all time favorites. Three MCs with great hoarse voices and 10/10 flow, especially Sticky Fingaz. I don't even care about the black gangsta lyrics. It sounds great overall and that's what matters the most to me.

 
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What do Kiwis think of zoomerslop I really like the production on these especially from this producer wegonbeok the vocals are hit or miss
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UKQup7bw0Xo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DIQDnu3mr4
some non ok beats
https://youtube.com/watch?v=92zjCAKmTss
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yHLxZKLSkvo
also Joeyy (Sam Hyde orbiter) has a unironic fanbase, I like some of his songs reminds me of early dg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfbqKzz7zGA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2uJ7hsdEocg
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Joeyy is wavey
 
Listening to some classic Aesop Rock right now.
Still convinced dude is legit schizo and doesn't know what half of what he's spitting actually means but man, it sounds dope.

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I dig this a lot, too. Super dark album, one of my all time favorites. Three MCs with great hoarse voices and 10/10 flow, especially Sticky Fingaz. I don't even care about the black gangsta lyrics. It sounds great overall and that's what matters the most to me
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My nigga.
"Onyx" still remains as the single best name choice for an all-black crew. Love their aggressiveness, don't need complex rhyme schemes when your shit sounds as real as this. I remember being in absolute disbelief when that shitty "Blade" TV show started airing in my country and seeing Sticky Fingaz as the Daywalker.

9/Nine, who i feel was always mad underrated, got that same, raw 90s NY style:
U-Neek is crazy on this as well, not to mention the beat.
 
The vast majority of Lil B’s discography got removed from streaming services yesterday and this morning, presumably for copyright infringement. A lot of his songs were over beats that were straight up stolen or that had uncleared samples, so I’m kind of shocked they lasted as long as they did. I’m hoping he can reupload them later, but it’s looking like it might be local files time *sigh*
 
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The vast majority of Lil B’s discography got removed from streaming services yesterday and this morning, presumably for copyright infringement. A lot of his songs were over beats that were straight up stolen or that had uncleared samples, so I’m kind of shocked they lasted as long as they did. I’m hoping he can reupload them later, but it’s looking like it might be local files time *sigh*
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Had to check right away if my favorite track of his is still up and on YT it is.
It's crazy that he was the one to give us the word "based" and how long that word is in use by now.
 
This came up for me on youtube, I haven't heard it in years:

 
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An overlooked classic El-P Remix.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLA1L8shtwY
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Nice! Listening to "Fantastic Damage" in full tonight for the first time in a million years myself. Perfect album from start to finish.
Aesop, Bill and El-P on one track, goddamn!
Beats on every single one of these tracks is just retarded. Especially on "Lazerfaces' Warning".

El-P is Aesop-Rock-but-I-Actually-Understand-The-Metaphors-tier to me, at least to a much higher extent compared to what Aes' is spitting on average. If i remember correctly the booklet of the Fan Dam CD had the lyrics to the tracks in it so that certainly helped my ESL ass a lot to understand what he's rapping about back in the day. That album was in my Discman all day erry day, especially at the time when i was still doing graffiti, always loved how the Def Jux guys put their writer roots into their lyrics.

My heart wasn't into writing anymore due to circumstances when Aesop dropped "No Jumper Cables" but i will pump this track until the day i die:
I am pretty sure that that "Just a kid growing up" at 0:32 is on a train by T-KID which got printed in one of the earliest graffiti magazines i ever laid eyes on over here. Google image search is shit and i can't find that particular picture.
 
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I think that it is cool that this Albanian rapper mixes hip hop with traditional Albanian music and culture. I wish more non-American hip hop artists would do this instead of trying to be fully American.
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YT feed hitting me with the utmost nostalgia:
Been so long ago since i last heard this track that i only clicked because i couldn't remember which exact track this was, despite listening to the album non-stop in my very early teens. Gang Starr, and especially "Full Clip", was my first conscious contact with US rap. I did listen to other stuff like Snoop's "Murder was the Case" before that via one of my older brothers but Gang Starr's stuff was the shit i first listened to of my own volition.
 
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